Chemical abundances of planetary nebulae in the disk-bulge connection

Details Chemical abundances of planetary nebulae in the disk-bulge connection Chemical abundances of planetary nebulae in the disk-bulge connection

2008-06-30

arxiv.org/abs/0807.0017v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the IAU Symposium 254: The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context

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We report the spectrophotometric investigation of a planetary nebula sample located at the disk-bulge interface of the Milky Way. The main goal of this work was to determine the galactocentric distance where, according to the intermediate mass population, bulge and disk properties separate. In order to derive such distance, new abundances were derived for a sample of PN located at this region, and the results were combined with additional data from the literature. The abundance analysis indicates a chemical abundance distribution similar to that derived from bulge stars, as already pointed out by other authors. Statistical distance scales were then used to study the distribution of chemical abundances across the disk-bulge connection. A Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to find the distance in which the chemical properties of these regions better separate, resulting in a best value of 2.9 kpc to define the inner limit of the disk.

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